Support for flexible doors of kitchen cabinets



A. I. S. HALVORSEN SUPPORT FOR FLEXIBLE DOORS OF KITCHEN CABINETS April3; 1928.

Filed Jan. 25. 1927 Patented Apr. 3 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AXEL I. S. HALVORSEN, OF ALBANY, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO MCCORMICK BROTHERSCOMPANY, OF ALBANY, INDIANA, A CORPORATION INDIANA.

Application filed January 25, 1527. Serial No. 163,468.

This invention relates to supporting means for flexible doors composedof slats, as used in kitchen cabinets and the like. In my co-pendingapplication, Serial No. 109,083; filed May 14, 19%,1 have shown doorsupporting means comprising metal disks arranged at the top of thedoorway in a kitchen cabinet, each disk having an arcuate flange theends of which are arranged at opposite sides of a groove in which theflexible door slides, and each disk is provided with a central bossaround which the door coils when the door is raised. These door supportsoccupy small space and the door coils at the front of the cabinetinstead of extending across the cabinet in the usual 'lXhe presentinvention comprises flanged disks arranged, as in the application abovereferred to, at the upper ends of the door grooves. The disks in thepresent invention, instead of being provided with central bosses areeach provided with a rib, preferably pressed out from the body of thedisk, this rib extending upwardly from the lower end of the flange pastits upper end, and thence parallel with the flange for a part of itslength, the rib and flange forming a guide for the door at its entranceinto the support and also serving to coil the door within the support.

In the accompanying drawing,

Fig. 1 is a vertical section, taken from front to rear, through part ofa kitchen cabinet equipped with my improved door supports;

Fig.2 is a horizontal section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 8 is an enlarged detail view of the support and adjacent partsshown in Fig. 1, the door being shown partly coiled within the support;and,

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the supports.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, of the drawing, a represents acompartment of a kitchen cabinet having at its front side a doorwaywhich is adapted to be opened and closed by a door 6, composed of aplurality of slats 1, flexibly connected together, the ends of the slatsfitting, in the usual man ner, within guide grooves 2, formed at thesides of the doorway by outer and inner disk.

. of the flanges.

strips 3 and 4. To the side walls 5 and 6 of the casing, adjacent theupper ends of the guide grooves, are secured the door supports cand 0,respectively. As shown, the door support 0 comprises a flat disk 7,having an arcuate flange 8, which extends around the greater part of thecircumference of the disk. One end 8 of the flange is turned outwardly,as shown. From the other end of the flange, a rib 9, pressed up from thebody of the disk, extends inwardly and upwardly past the end 8 of theflange, and thence extends parallel with the flange for a shortdistance, as shown at 9. The rib isspaced from the flange soas to formthere with a groove for guiding the door, and the central part of thedisk is unobstructed.

The supports 0 and c are arranged atopposite sides of the casing, asshown, and these supports are alike in all respects except that beingadapted for use at opposite sides of the housing, the flange and rib onone disk project oppositely from the flange and rib on the opposingdisk. I

The supports are secured to the side walls of the cabinet by screws 10,passing through suitable holes 11 in the supports, and the lips 8 on theflanges are arranged adjacent the outer door guides 3, as shown in Figs.1 and 3-. The ribs 9 extend upwardly from the inner guide strips 4Landpast the ends 8' of the flanges and then curve inwardly parallel withthe flanges to a point slightly beyond the upper central portions of thesupports, as shown. The ribs and adjacent portions of the flanges thusform guides for the door extending from the upper ends of the grooves 2to points above the centers of the lVhen the door is raised, the ends ofthe slats pass from the groovesEZ. into the grooves or channels formedby the ribs and flanges, and are guided thereby to the rear portions Theslats then follow the flanges downwardly until they. meet with the ribs9, and thence follow the inner walls pressed up from the body of thedisk, although the rib may be separately formed, if desired.

What I claim is: A support for doors composed of flexibly connectedslats, comprising a metal disk hairing an arcuate flange extendingaround the greater part of its circumference and having a rib extendingfrom one end of the flange 10 inwardly on the disk past the other end ofunobstructed to permit the door to coil upon 15 itself.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

AXEL I. S. HALVORSEN.

